On the second morning of the week, the whole family went to the nearby pool that had the lazy river. There were also mushroom shaped shelters with water forming a curtain from the edges of the roofs. Pa made a gesture at one of them and said, "Maybe if you get under that umbrella, you won't get wet."
Rebecca had pointed at him with two index fingers, smiled with an open mouth, and said, "Eeeeeeeeeey!"
She thought that, perhaps, Pa was mostly White. He kind of looked it. She didn't know, but she wondered if she should ask one day.
There were also two water slides. Jessa was the first one to climb the stairs to get to where an employee was handing out inflated rings. Apparently, you were only allowed to slide down while properly seated on one, but you could have a partner sit on the same ring as you. One also had to wait when a machine's light changed from red to green, to ensure that the slide wouldn't be clogged, and to keep things safer.
Rebecca didn't have the guts to try the slide out. Jenny tried to persuade her, but she failed. However, her mind was changed when Cliff promised to sit behind her on a ring, and keep her from drowning if they ended up under water. Just as they began sliding down the plastic tunnel, Rebecca shouted out, "I regret everything in my life!" That earned a laugh from the man behind her. They both walked up the stairs again and again to feel the rush of the slide.
They tired of it eventually and decided to lounge with the grandparents in the lazy river. Instead of squeezing her backside in the hole of the doughnut shaped float, Rebecca chose to put her whole body through it. Her feet touched the hard floor of the pool. Her arms were on the float. Cliff was in a similar position right behind her. Sometimes he tapped her foot with his, making her giggle.
Pa's voice reached them. "You two sweet on each other?"
Rebecca didn't know what to tell him.
Cliff was the one to reply. "I guess so, Pa."
"Well that's cute," Pa said as he kept a wrinkled hand on Nana's float. That was pretty much all he said on the subject.
After the family had finished their morning swim, they got dressed at the RVs, and they went to a Japanese restaurant, because Nana loved sushi. Rebecca did too, and she was happy to share her excitement. The family parted after that meal. Jessa and Jenny asked Rebecca and Cliff if they wanted to go to a nearby amusement park together.
That trip ended up being pretty fun. Roller coasters were ridden with excitement, but Rebecca ended up vomiting all over Cliff's shirt at one point. The fact that he laughed it off warmed her heart. A high ranking employee was happy to rinse the man off with a hose, help him dry off, and sell him a park T-Shirt.
"But that thing's too expensive," Rebecca protested.
Cliff rolled his eyes at her. "It's alright. I was going to buy a shirt anyway."
A ride called the oh so classic, "Tunnel of Love" caught Rebecca's attention. She had only seen such rides on TV. "Wait," she said, taking Cliff's arm and pointing at the ride, "are those still a thing? Are tunnels of love a thing?"
His eyebrows rose, but he was smiling. "You want to go on that ride?"
"No!" She pouted her lip and looked away.
Jessa pulled her wife as she stomped over to the line to the ride, announcing to everyone, "Well, we're going."
Poor Jenny had an astonished look on her face.
Jessa looked down at her fidgeting hands. Then she looked at a crack in the pathway under her feet.
"We're going on the Tunnel of Love, aren't we?" Cliff said in a serious, knowing tone that almost rumbled.
She balled her hands into fists and barked out, "You bet your sweet ass we're going on the Tunnel of Love!"
It turned out to be the most unromantic piece of shit ride ever. The water smelled like sewage. The seats in the boat were uncomfortable. The decorations weren't just cheesy. They were neglected. Anything that moved had an irritable squeak or shot out little sparks. Any robot that spoke did so in a slow and disturbed tone. It was a horror show.
Rebecca had an expression that was somewhere between fear and disgust frozen on her face when they were exiting the tunnel. Cliff had to help her out of the boat. The only thing that woke her up from her stupor was his kiss on her cheek, and she blushed from it.
After that debacle, they found carnival style games to play. Rebecca went to a ring tossing game and gave the employee a dollar. She missed every single target, but she was okay with it. Then they went to a game that involved smashing a target on the ground with a mallet, so that an object would be pushed up and, hopefully, hit a bell.
Jessa gave the employee a dollar, took a deep breath, and smashed the target with a yell. Rebecca was amazed to see the bell ring. The nodding, but surprised employee handed her a giant teddy bear, which Jessa then gave to a tittering Jenny.
"You want a bear, Sweetheart?" Cliff asked Rebecca as he searched his fanny pack for his wallet.
"Not really." Rebecca thought it was a nice offer, though.
The man's face darkened. She was fairly certain he was blushing. "Well, I can't just not get you a teddy bear after Jessa got one."
"It's not a competition," Jenny said over the colorful ears of her new toy.
"Yes it is!" Jessa teasingly objected. She stuck her tongue out at her brother.
Two bills in his fingers, Cliff muttered something about getting two bears. He ended up ringing that bell twice, and he shoved two huge teddy bears into Rebecca's arms. She couldn't see anything except cheap, fluffy fabric.
Jessa said she didn't want to continue the pissing contest, and that she was willing to accept defeat, but she insisted that she was, "still the best at eating pussy."
Cliff didn't seem to have a retort for that. How could you respond to that without saying something messed up or offensive?
But Rebecca had something in mind. Her reputation as a sweet and honest woman would no doubt make her next statement very powerful. She put her teddy bears on a park bench, walked up to Jessa, looked straight up at her pretty green eyes, and said with a straight face, "I'm pretty sure I'm the best here at eating pussy." She said it soft enough that only her companions would hear. She didn't want to disturb any children that might have been nearby.
The two women and the man gawked at her for a complete minute, while a smug grin bloomed on Rebecca's face.
Finally, Jessa broke the mood. She slapped Rebecca's shoulder, which hurt a bit. Then she said, "You're funny as hell, Tiny. You got me for a minute."
Jenny pushed her pretty fingers against her cheek, moving aside sections of her black hair. "I almost believed you, damn."
Cliff sat down beside the teddy bears and bent over with laughter.
***
It was dark by the time they had finished their fun at the amusement park. Rebecca and Jenny had shoved their bears on top of an unclaimed bed in the back of the RV they were staying in. While three people were comfortably using it, there were enough beds for six people. Of course, most of the beds were tiny little things with barely any headroom. Jessa and Jenny had claimed the only bed big enough for two people, which was at the front. That seemed fair to Rebecca, since they were a couple, and Rebecca was small enough to keep her sanity when laying on one of the tiny beds.
The couple had claimed the entire RV again and told Rebecca to leave. This seemed logical. So, she sat outside for a few minutes, unsure of what to occupy her time with.
Cliff came to the rescue, holding a pack of cards. "Hey, you know how to play poker?"
"I used to know how to play Texas Hold'em." She scooped up her purse and smiled at him. "I think I'd rather play Smut or Go Fish, though."
"Aren't you getting cold out here?" His head jerked towards his RV. "Come on, let's go inside." She wasn't cold at all. The air was as warm as a mother's hug. Rebecca's fingers tightened around the handle of her well worn purse. There might be a point of no return coming up.
